December Newsletter
4 Year Old
Kindergarten
Parents... We had a wonderful
Thanksgiving feast! Thanks to all the parents who contributed to our wonderful
celebration of thanks, your help with these special events make 4K a very
special place to be! We had a great time
today and realized we certainly do have much to be thankful for! It is hard to believe winter and all its
joyous celebrations are almost upon us, not to mention we have snow! This month we are looking forward to learning
about the many things that make families unique, how to appreciate the
different traditions and holidays celebrated
by many families…and we will have the opportunity to perform in front of
a live audience! Watch for upcoming details!
Lots of exciting things are going on in December, so please read on...
Things to
Come...
On
the evening of December 12th in the Mitchell Elementary Gymnasium we will be
performing at the Mitchell Winter
Concert. For the concert students
should be dressed in their holiday best!
NEED: for the concert we are in need for a few non-breakable
ball ornaments, Christmas lights, and garland!
If you have some to share please sent to school ASAP! J
We
will continue to take time to learn more about winter (and winter weather dressing...keep working on that at home too! J),
discerning
between fiction and non-fiction literature, problem solving and begin a unit on
our five senses…what a great season for that!
We
will meet new letter friends (remember to keep this a secret!) This month we will meet…
Mr.
Q has a
head filled with questions! It’s good to ask questions because you learn quite
a lot. He even questions why his letter makes sounds like two other Letter People,
Ms. K. and Ms. W. He asks, “How can 1
Letter Person make 2 sounds?!?” Well, he
learned the answer that Ms. U stands next to him in every word to help him make
his sounds. Books at the library help
him find answers to his questions. He has a hidden capital Q among all the question marks on his clothes and
his open mouth forms a Q. He will also help us jump into our five
senses inquiry unit learning with Miss S and Mr. M!
Ms. S puts on her super sock when she is afraid. She looks like a superstar with her
superwoman cape and mask! She likes to
sing solos and play with her pet salamander, Sal. She has super senses of taste, touch,
hearing, seeing, and smelling! She has 3
lowercase s’s hidden on the back of her super socks!
Mr. M has a “munching mouth”. He munches from morning to midnight eating all kinds of marvelous
food beginning with the “m” letter sound (we’ll let you think of foods
beginning with the letter “m”J). He likes going to the Mud Puppy Mini
Mall and the Museum
of Magnificent Art
In
math we will continue working on
numbers 1-10 with simple addition, practice writing the numbers and making
simple and complex AB, ABC, ABBC, etc. patterns.
Gift exchange! In order to help our children
understand and develop a characteristic of sharing and giving to others we will
have a $1.00 gift exchange on December 20sth. Look for more
information to come home in about a week.
Ginger Bread Houses
The week of December 16th, we
are going to be making Gingerbread Houses!
If you are able to supply any of these items would you send the
following items to school with your child by Monday, December 9th. As you
see there are plenty of things we need but I also know there are many parents
who are willing to help… so send what you can! Thank you!
- Powdered sugar (need 9
bags total!)
- Candies for decorating the
houses: small candy canes, shoe string licorice, dinner mints, teddy
grams, M& M’s, variety of hard candy, Christmas tree jellies or
marshmallows, etc.
- Box of graham crackers
(need 7 boxes total!)
- small plastic plates
- dozen eggs (need 5 dozen
total)
- couple parents willing to
make decorator frosting with eggs and powdered sugar the day before Dec.
16th!
Writing
Kits
Please
remember to continue practicing holding pencils with the correct grip and writing first names, letters and numbers correctly.
J If
a child is having difficulty I will send home extra practice sheets…thank you
for doing them with your child to make sure they are done the right way.
It’s Library Time
Please
remember that when a library book comes home on Monday! They should come back the
next Monday…not any earlier and not any later! J Please, please be sure to read them with your
child and be sure the books come back. Students are so sad to return their
library book when no one has read it to them.
We also are also in need of parent volunteers to read during our library
time. Let us know if you’d like to help
out!
Centers
This month our Community Center
will become Santa’s Workshop! Thanks to
some new tools it’s going to be pretty cool! If you have any broken toys that
could serve as our workshop project, simple tools, small pieces of smooth wood,
gift bags to use for our center please send them in, they will be put to good
use!
Starting in January our
Community Center will become a Post Office.
If anyone has any connections with someone who works at a Post Office
and would like to come and share a bit about their career please let us
know. We are in need of envelopes,
sticker stamps, ink pads, stamps, old cards, and mail carrier clothes (hats,
shirts, mailbag, etc.). Thanks for your
help!
Monthly Remembers...
Ÿ To check backpacks everyday but
especially on Friday for those Friday
Folders!
Ÿ Thank you for your faithfulness
when it comes to snacks... it’s great to have a fresh new and healthy snack
everyday. Please note this month’s snack
calendar for your turn!
Ÿ Note: when you open juice packs and get the
snack as ready as possible for me to serve that helps me have more time with
the students…so thanks for thinking ahead and helping me out.
Ÿ Important
...we will begin
indoor gym time next month, so please be sure that your child has gym shoes
every Friday or keep an extra pair in their backpack with their spare clothes!
Ÿ If you have any extra, new or
used gym shoes you can send my way to keep in school for those that forget I
would be happy to have them.
Ÿ Return Scholastic Book orders the third Thursday of the month…BUT this month for the holidays I will be
ordering December 7th…so I get them to you before Christmas!
Ÿ Order from Market Day to help
support school projects.
Ÿ Winter
Break will
begin on Friday, December 20th and goes until January 2nd.
Help!
If you can help out with:
1. Our gingerbread house making
day, December 19th.
Please let me know!
I also
have need of the following items for the classroom! If you can help, please
send…
- paper towels
- board games
- dress up clothes and shoes
- Large size zip lock bags
- 8’5 x 11 colored
construction paper
Thank
you!
Wishing All of Our 4K Families a Wonderful Christmas and a
Happy New Year…Mrs. Berka and Miss Barczi
